Cameco Corp (CCJ) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $56.32, with 6.85 million shares of worth about $385.78 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 18.29% during that period and on January 22, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 5.15%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 435.18M shares, out of which, 433.32M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 14.80% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 8.45%. Year-to-date (YTD), CCJ shares are showing a performance of 9.59% which increased to 19.86% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $35.43 but also hit the highest price of $62.55 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Cameco Corp shares is 3.97 million. The stock is currently trading 8.64% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.16% for SMA50 and it goes to 13.22% higher than SMA200.
Cameco Corp (NYSE: CCJ) currently have 435.18M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 76.53% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $24.51B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.94. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 286.91, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.20 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.41 and has Quick Ratio of 1.26 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CCJ, volatility over the week remained 4.16% while standing at 3.60% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Cameco Corp (CCJ) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.33 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.41 and it is 2.12 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.25 which is 0.48 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.21 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -25.60% while it is estimated to increase by 171.10% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 65.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 13.73% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Coverage by Goldman stated Cameco Corp (CCJ) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on April 01, 2024, suggesting a price target of $55 for the stock. Stock get an Outperform rating from BMO Capital Markets on November 08, 2023.
